Tag Archives: poem

Bright Star (2009)

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Jane Campion Writer: Jane Campion (Based on the book “Keats” by Andrew Motion)

Posted in Drama, Romance | Tagged 1800s, 2009, abbie cornish, adaptation, alexandre de franceschi, andrew motion, ben whishaw, biography, bright star, caroline hewitt, death, drama, edie martin, england, greig fraser, jan chapman, jane campion, john keats, keats, kerry fox, london, love, mark bradshaw, paul schneider, poem, poet, poetry, romance, sick, thomas brodie-sangster, true story, valentine | Leave a comment

In the Cut (2003)

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Jane Campion Writers: Jane Campion & Susanna Moore (Based on the novel by Susanna Moore)

Posted in Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Tagged 2003, adaptation, affair, alexandre de franceschi, cop, crime, detective, dion beebe, drama, hilmar orn hilmarsson, ice skating, in the cut, investigation, jane campion, jennifer jason leigh, kevin bacon, laurie parker, manhattan, mark ruffalo, meg ryan, murder, mystery, new york, new york city, nick damici, nicole kidman, nyc, poem, poetry, police, professor, serial killer, sex, stavros kazantzidis, susanna moore, thriller, writer | Leave a comment

An Angel at My Table (1990)

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Jane Campion Writer: Laura Jones (Based on the books “To the Is-Land” and “An Angel at My Table” and “The Envoy from Mirror City” by Janet Frame)

Posted in Drama | Tagged 1990, adaptation, an angel at my table, author, autobiography, biography, bridget ikin, doctor, don mcglashan, drama, ect, electroconvulsive therapy, hospital, institution, jane campion, janet frame, kerry fox, laura jones, metal hospital, misdiagnosis, new zealand, patient, poem, poet, poetry, schizophrenia, stuart dryburgh, the envoy from mirror city, to the is-land, true story, veronika haeussler, veronika jenet, writer, writing | Leave a comment

Wit (2001)

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Mike Nichols Writers: Emma Thompson & Mike Nichols (Based on the play by Margaret Edson)

Posted in Drama | Tagged 2001, academic, adaptation, audra mcdonald, cancer, christopher lloyd, college, doctor, drama, eileen atkins, emma thompson, english, harold pinter, henryk Mikołaj gorecki, hospital, john bloom, jonathan m. woodward, margaret edson, mike nicols, nurse, ovarian cancer, poem, poet, poetry, professor, seamus mcgarvey, simon bosanquet, sonnet, terminal, treatment, university, wit | Leave a comment

Poetic Justice (1993)

Posted on November 5, 2021 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: John Singleton Writer: John Singleton

Posted in Drama, Romance | Tagged 1993, 2pac, billy zane, bruce cannon, california, clifton collins jr., drama, hair, hairdresser, janet jackson, joe torry, john singleton, lori petty, los angeles, maya Angelou, michael rapaport, oakland, peter lyons collister, poem, poet, poetic justice, poetry, post office, postal service, q-tip, regina king, road trip, roger guenveur smith, romance, rose weaver, stanley clarke, steve nicolaides, tone loc, truck, tupac shakur, tyra ferrell, yvette wilson | Leave a comment

Paterson (2016)

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Jim Jarmusch Writer: Jim Jarmusch

Posted in Comedy, Drama, Romance | Tagged 2016, adam driver, bar, bulldog, bus, bus driver, comedy, dog, drama, driver, golshifteh farahani, jim jarmusch, method man, new jersey, paterson, poem, poet, poetry, romance | Leave a comment

The Doors (1991)

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Oliver Stone Writers: J. Randal Johnson and Oliver Stone

Posted in Drama, Musical, Review | Tagged 1960s, 1991, alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, andy warhol, band, billy idol, brian grazer, california, crispin glover, death, debi mazar, drama, drug, drugs, film school, france, frank whaley, j. randal johnson, john densmore, jom morrison, kathleen quinlan, kelly hu, kevin dillon, kyle maclachlan, lisa edelstein, lizard king, los angeles, meg ryan, michael madsen, michael wincott, mimi rogers, music, musical, oliver stone, pamela courson, paris, paul williams, poem, poet, poetry, randall jahnson, robert richardson, rock band, Ron Howard, the doors, titus welliver, ucla, val kilmer | Leave a comment

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Jim Sheridan Writers: Shane Connaughton & Jim Sheridan (Based on the book by Christy Brown)

Posted in Drama, Romance | Tagged adaptation, biography, brenda fricker, cerebral palsy, christy brown, daniel day-lewis, drama, ireland, irish, jim sheridan, left foot, my left foot, painter, painting, poem, poet, poor, poverty, shane connaughton | Leave a comment

Howl (2010)

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Jon Watches Movies

Directors: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman Writers: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman An interesting and unconventional take on the obscenity trial around Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem Howl. While the trial is dramatized they also feature the reading of the actual … Continue reading →

Posted in Drama, Uncategorized | Tagged allen ginsberg, beat generation, bob balaban, david strathairm, howl, jack kerouac, james franco, jeff daniels, jon hamm, mary-louise parker, obscenity, poem, poet, poetry, san francisco, treat williams, trial, true story | Leave a comment

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